UC Davis COVID-19 Research and Researchers in the News (Week of 5/25)
Press Releases and News Outlet Pickups
UC Davis Health Press Release (5/26): CTSC is a quiet hero of UC Davis COVID-19 research
The Clinical and Translational Science Center is an unsung hero of both UC Davis's COVID-19 research and its ongoing clinical trials.
- Mirage News: CTSC is a quiet hero of UC Davis COVID-19 research
COVID-19 research and clinical trials throughout UC Davis have a quiet and crucial backbone that is hard to describe – even for the directors of this ...
UC Davis Health Press Release (5/29): UC Davis Health leaders: Smart testing, not mass testing, the best path out of the COVID-19 pandemic
In a May 29 LinkedIn piece, UC Davis Health’s David Lubarsky and Brad Pollock write that the impractical notion of mass population testing should be replaced by a more nuanced and targeted approach to achieving safer living and working.
UC Davis Press Release (5/29): UC Davis infectious disease experts have some warnings about COVID-19 and summer
Summer means warm weather and relaxed social restrictions for COVID-19, but UC Davis experts warn that the disease may stay just as contagious, especially with large gatherings.
Older UC Davis Press Release (5/22): Vice Chancellor for Research, Graduate Student Develop COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tool
The app, We-Care, allows users to check in at specific locations and notifies them if someone reporting themselves as positive for COVID-19 checks in at the same location within a certain time window.
- Woodland Daily Democrat: Did politically-motivated scientists hype their speedy study? In the race to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the world's scientists have ... UC Davis computer scientists this past week, developed a web-based ...
- Sacramento Business Journal: UC Davis professor releases free Covid-19 contact-tracing app
A pair of computer scientists at the University of California Davis created a coronavirus contact-tracing app, designed to avoid raising privacy... - CBS Sacramento: UC Davis Computer Scientists Launch App To Help Slow Spread Of COVID-19
DAVIS (CBS13) — State officials have launched a program to train and hire thousands of COVID-19 contact tracers, but now there's an app for that. - News On 6: UC Davis Develops Contact Tracing App To Slow COVID-19 Spread
It's one more digital step toward slowing the spread of COVID-19. Computer scientists at UC Davis have developed a web-based contact-tracing app ...
Other UC Davis Research and Research Studies in the News
Can Air Conditioning Spread Coronavirus? Why Experts Are Concerned About Public Spaces
Prevention
summer? Researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of California, Davis, published a report that suggests......
How to make in-person voting safer
San Francisco Chronicle
by-mail doesn’t eliminate the need for in-person voting. A UC Davis study published in 2017 found that not all demographic and...
UC Davis Researchers and Experts Providing Insight
Dean Blumberg, Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital
- KCRA Sacramento: How weather could impact the spread of COVID-19
... Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children's Hospital, about how the weather could have an impact on the spread of COVID-19. - Capital Public Radio: How Summer Weather Could Impact The Spread Of COVID-19
weather might impact COVID-19 and shutdown restrictions. Guests UC Davis Children’s Hospital Chief of Pediatric Infectious... - Capital Public Radio News: Easing COVID-19 Restrictions / Coronavirus During Summertime / Virtual Cinema, Local Film ...
UC Davis Children's Hospital's Dr. Dean Blumberg breaks down how the summertime weather could impact COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders. - Southern California Public Radio: COVID-19: Is CA Reopening Too Quickly? Fitness Centers Expecting Guidance From Newsom
story here Guest: Dean Blumberg, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Children’s...
Erin DiCaprio, a virologist who specializes in community food safety
- WICZ: Self-serve salad bars and all-you-can-eat buffets face an uncertain future in the age of coronavirus
Now, thanks to the novel coronavirus, this subset of the restaurant industry is ... food buffets such as salad bars in a retail setting related to COVID-19? ... who helped launch a comprehensive UC Davis website on Covid-19 and food ... - CBS Sacramento: Self-Serve Salad Bars, All-You-Can-Eat Buffets Face Uncertain Future In The Age Of Coronavirus
Alternatively, cafeteria style (worker served) is permissible with appropriate barriers in place.” DiCaprio, who helped launch a comprehensive UC Davis ... - CNN.com: Self-serve salad bars and all-you-can-eat buffets face an uncertain future in the age of coronavirus
, a virologist who specializes in community food safety at the University of California, Davis. Along with installing...
Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal geneticist
- Grist: Coronavirus is accelerating the rise of alternative meat
Coronavirus is accelerating the rise of alternative meat ... food,” says Alison Van Eenennaam, an animal geneticist at UC Davis, speaking of the U.S. ...
Mitchell Creinin, Professor of Gynecology
- marketscreener.com: Mithra Pharmaceuticals SA : Launches a Research Programme on Estetrol's Effect in Covid-19 ...
Women are more likely than men to be spared by Covid-19, with less ... Mitchell Creinin, Professor of Gynecology at UC Davis University, California.
Heather Riden is Program Director of Ag Health and Safety
- AGInfo Ag Information Network Of The West (press release) (blog): Ag Health & Safety During COVID-19
Heather Riden is Program Director of Ag Health and Safety at UC Davis. She knew that something needed to be done to help protect these essential ...
Bradley Pollock, epidemiologist
- Los Angeles Times: How L.A. County became a coronavirus hot spot: Slower shutdown, density, poverty among theories
counties and cities, L.A. has been a hotbed,” said UC Davis epidemiologist Bradley Pollock. To try to make sense of these trends,...... - Capital Public Radio: Assessing COVID-19 Testing, Safety Protocols In California
testing, safety protocols, and more in California. Guests UC Davis School of Medicine Professor, Public Health Science...
Rana Jaleel, an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women's studies
- NBCNEWS.com: The coronavirus is threatening diversity in academia
an assistant professor of gender, sexuality and women’s studies at University of California, Davis, said. “Each...
Sima Asadi, a chemical engineer
- Psychology Today Blog: 5 Common COVID-19 Mistakes People Make Unknowingly
from each other if they sing aloud. Sima Asadi and colleagues from UC Davis write in Nature (2019) that the rate of particle...
Cynthia Pickett, psychologist
- CBS Sacramento: ‘Masking’ Emotions: Psychologist Gives Insight On Mask-Shaming Amid Pandemic
overreacting to this.” When it comes to these new social norms, UC Davis psychologist Cynthia Pickett says shame is the usual...
Dr. Scott Anderson, clinical professor at medical school
- Daily Republic: Ask Dr. Scott: Who charts our future? The virus, the government or us?
is a clinical professor at the University of California, Davis Medical School. This column is...
William Ristenpart, a professor of chemical engineering
- Wired: To Beat Covid-19, You Have to Know How A Virus Moves
it,” says William Ristenpart, a professor of chemical engineering at UC Davis who studies disease transmission. “The room you’re...
Philip Martin, professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics
- CNN.com: Fact check: A list of Trump's pandemic-related false claims from March 16 through May 3
has been closed," said Philip Martin, a University of California, Davis professor emeritus of agricultural and resource...
Jonathan Eisen, microbiologist
- Undark: Opinion: Society Is Becoming Germaphobic. Let’s Not Stay That Way.
immune responses. Jonathan Eisen, a microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, noted in an interview with...
Richard Sexton is a professor of agricultural and resource economics
- WXYZ.COM: Food supply chain disruptions causing sticker shock at Michigan restaurants
is a professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis. He says restaurants looking......
Brian Bird, virologist and associate director of the One Health Institute
- Daily Mail Online: Holland bans transport of mink after farm workers caught coronavirus
Virologist Brian Bird, associate director of the University of California Davis One Health Institute, told National...
Michael Wilkes, a professor of medicine and global health
- KCRW 89.9: Risk of dying from COVID-19 is real but lower than you might think, says UC Davis doctor
Dr. Michael Wilkes, a professor of medicine and global health at UC Davis, says people engage in varying levels of risk each day...A lot of the...
Frances Gulland, a research associate
- Point Reyes Light: Bats and the search for the zoonotic link
Dr. Frances Gulland, a research associate at the University of California, Davis who co-authored a study on the die-off, said it made sense to...